Overview of the Mission Design Reference Trajectory for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Robotic MissionThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) recently cancelled Asteroid Redirect Mission was proposed to rendezvous with and characterize a 100 m plus class near-Earth asteroid and provide the capability to capture and retrieve a boulder off of the surface of the asteroid and bring the asteroidal material back to cislunar space. Leveraging the best of NASA's science, technology, and human exploration efforts, this mission was originally conceived to support observation campaigns, advanced solar electric propulsion, and NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and Orion crew vehicle. The asteroid characterization and capture portion of ARM was referred to as the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) and was focused on the robotic capture and then redirection of an asteroidal boulder mass from the reference target, asteroid 2008 EV5, into an orbit near the Moon, referred to as a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit where astronauts would visit and study it. The purpose of this paper is to document the final reference trajectory of ARRM and the challenges and unique methods employed in the trajectory design of the mission.
Document ID
20170010282
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Mcguire, Melissa L. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Strange, Nathan J. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Burke, Laura M. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
McCarty, Steven L. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Lantoine, Gregory B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Qu, Min (Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Shen, Haijun (Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Smith, David A. (Vantage Partners, LLC Cleveland, OH, United States)
Vavrina, Matthew A. (a.i. solutions, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
October 23, 2017
Publication Date
August 20, 2017
Subject Category
Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence And RoboticsAstrodynamics